Free Rafah
Title: Free Rafah
Subject: Rafah, Gaza, Palestine, and Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Created: 2024
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“Some of the more than 1 million displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah are weighing the risks of whether to stay or flee as concerns grow of a military offensive there that Israel says is necessary for its war aims.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the military’s plan for an attack on Rafah last month, but there’s still no publicly announced time frame for an assault.
Several recent developments, though, indicate the military may be laying the groundwork for its plans. This week, the military announced it had called up two reserve brigades for duty in Gaza. Satellite images examined by NPR show several new tent encampments, which can hold thousands of people, have been erected this month in areas north of Rafah. There have also been almost daily airstrikes on the city in recent weeks, indicating increased pressure by the military on Rafah.”
– NPR, What to know about a possible Israeli military offensive in Rafah
“Dozens of people, including children, have been killed as “extremely intense” Israeli airstrikes and shelling pounded multiple locations in Rafah overnight Monday, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, as international alarm mounts over Israel’s planned ground offensive in the southern Gazan city.
More than 100 people were killed due to Israeli airstrikes as warplanes targeted different areas of the city and helicopters fired machine guns along the border areas, the PRCS said early Monday.
The Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza said 94 people lost their lives. CNN cannot independently verify either number. The discrepancy likely exists because the health ministry only updates death toll numbers after bodies have been identified. Both groups warned the figure was likely to rise and the PRCS said people remained trapped beneath the rubble.
The director of Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital said medical facilities in Rafah “cannot handle the large number of injuries due to the Israeli occupation’s bombardment.””
– CNN World, Israeli airstrikes kill more than 100 in Rafah as international alarm mounts over anticipated ground offensive
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Free Palestine
Free Palestine is a series of artworks by Ihanktonwan Dakota artist David Bernie that addresses the policy of Genocide against the Palestinian community.
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